Re: ls display directory context?

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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've considered the semantics of the --dircontext switch. I think what
> > I actually want is ls to be able to acknowledge what directory I told
> > is to look in.
> >
> > So if I say:
> >
> >   ls --dircontext childdir
> >
> > it comes back with:
> >
> >   childdir/a.txt childdir/b.txt
>
>
> $ ls childdir | sed 's,^,childdir/,'
>
> (Uses -1 format and doesn't handle newlines in file names.)

I was going to suggest the same thing, but that
doesn't handle when multiple childdirs are passed

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